Posts Tagged: Bank of America

“Unconfirmed reports suggest that HSBC was targeted by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters as part of a current campaign (see Pastebin post*) to get the controversial Innocence of Muslims video removed from YouTube. The group also took credit for interrupting customer access to the website...

“Iranian hackers took over a University of Michigan computer network during a massive cyber attack on U.S. financial systems last week that continued following comments on the strike by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. According to reports by a leading Internet security-monitoring firm, the cyb...

“A shadowy but well organized hacker group in the Middle East has disrupted the electronic banking operations of America’s largest financial institutions in recent days, underscoring U.S. vulnerability to online terrorism. A group identifying itself as Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters...

By AlexOlesker Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking “mathematical and computational models that predict whether a person is likely to commit suicide” and to detect homicidal intent. More here. Th...

via InformationWeek The Qakbot worm, which targets consumers’ financial website credentials, appears to be growing more sophisticated and virulent. The long-running worm appeared in 2009, but in the past month there’s been a spike in the overall number of infections seen at any given tim...

via Security News Daily Corporate espionage, shady political motives, secret documents, closed door meetings, confidential hacking plots – there’s a scandal brewing in the cybersecurity world that has all the makings of a best-selling John Grisham novel. Three computer-security consultin...